Shaer writes regularly about books for the Washington Post and Bookforum, among other publications. In the spring of 1891, 31-year-old Knut Hamsun, penniless and hounded by debtors, embarked on a ...

There has been a recent revival of interest in the works of Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian Nobel laureate. Roshen Dalal explores the reasons for the revival. There has been a recent revival of interest in ...

The second best-known modern Norwegian writer after Ibsen—who remained a lifelong bugbear—Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) is an author of immense psychological insight and massive personal contradictions: ...

New York architect Steven Holl has completed a centre dedicated to Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun in Hamarøy, Norway. The Knut Hamsun Center includes exhibition spaces, a library and reading room, an ...

In the spring of 1891, 31-year-old Knut Hamsun, penniless and hounded by debtors, embarked on a lecture tour of his native Norway. He had recently published his first successful novel, “Hunger”; now, ...

I lived for a time in Copenhagen, trying to learn Danish, and that’s when I discovered the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, whose career was one of the strangest of the last century. Hamsun is not so ...

“Art, newspapers, luxuries, politics were worth exactly as much as people were willing to pay for them, no more; the growth of the soil, on the other hand, had to be procured at any cost.” This is the ...

One of the best books I read this year was also one of the worst. As I walked in a small town in the south of France, the early afternoon sun was high and warm and the sky cloudless. Suddenly, I came ...

Here are more images of Steven Holl Architects' Knut Hamsun Center at Hamarøy, Norway, which opened last week. The opening of the building coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Norwegian writer ...